medicine wheel

Integrative holistic medicine has expanded its concept of healing to incorporate a human energy field which is the foundation of Eastern medical systems such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) including acupuncture. Physical energies including radiation, electromagnetic and light are used in modern medicine and can be easily measured. Ancient healing traditions teach that there are increasingly subtle energies associated with the increasing complexity of the physical body-mind and consciousness. There is recent scientific evidence for the existence of these subtle and difficult to measure energies interacting with the human energy field. At the center of this is an integral physiology with the pineal gland converting energies into all the body’s systems. “The pineal gland is the cornerstone of the biochemical interface with our environment and the subtle energy that both supports and transcends our sense perceptions and sustains our body…”1 The enormous contributions of Western medicine with the profound insights of the Eastern systems of human energy and health are united by the new science and by the recent philosophical work of integral thinkers like Wilber2. If Western medicine accepts the new research documenting a truly cohesive physiologic system it must incorporate a unifying theory that accounts for the existence of energy fields within as well as outside the human body. Out of this comes a new form of medicine which is truly holistic and integrative.                                for more click here>